It s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of ...

The Battle of Adrianople during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 played a crucial yet overlooked role in Greece's fight for ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

After a 14-year civil war, half the population displaced from their homes, and at least 300,000 dead, Syria was ready for ...

It’s getting hard to tell under the leadership, if that’s the word, of President Erdogan.

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after ...

The video shows whole valley of the dangerous road. Even for the most daring souls, it takes a lot of guts to drive down the D915 road in Turkey. Named the world's most dangerous road by Warrantywise.

Selim I ruled the Ottoman Empire for eight years until 1520 ... Tensions have recently mounted between Cairo and Ankara after Turkey objected to a maritime border demarcation that Egypt signed ...

The Turkish president has expanded the country’s military and diplomatic footprint from Africa to the Middle East in a way not seen since the end of the Ottoman Empire a century ago. Now he wants ...